Cliff Lee
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3-Year Batting, Pitching and Fielding Stats
Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox on winning their third World Series in ten years. Narrative and praise can be bestowed upon any player, manager, coach, or executive, for their success the past decade. Many in the…
Trade Deadline Dreaming is Believing
We took a look at the trade target for contenders a bit earlier last year, at the start of June. We are only three weeks from this season's non-waiver trade deadline, which gives us a different perspective. Let's see if…
Player of the Fortnight
With no games until this evening, it's as good a time as any to honor the most locked-in players in Baseball. About 20 years ago, a scout told me the best way to quickly see which players are on top of their game is to…
Last Year's Best Roster Additions
The final days of December are just a bit past the midpoint of baseball's hot stove season. Many big purchases have been made, while a few marquee prizes still shine in the sales brochures produced by their agents. This…
MLB Division Series Sunday Recaps
Friends and visitors, let's try something a little different today. Tigers 5, Yankees 3 Series tied 1-1 Heroes: Max Scherzer silenced the Yankee bats and his critics who claimed his inconsistencies suggested he couldn't…
MLB Pitchers with Best Stuff
We did this a few months ago, when there was such a small sample size, it was almost a waste of time. Tonight, we'll be looking at the Fangraphs Pitch Value Leaderboards to determine who has the best stuff. No hyperbole…
Throwing Strikes or Effectively Wild?
Warning: This post includes a lot of numbers, some observations, and unfortunately very few conclusions. Last month, we looked at pitchers with extraordinary abilities at missing bats in the zone . Tonight, in the…
Need Starters? Who's Left?
The subtitle of this post could be " Who's left?! Who?? That's It?! Uh-Oh." The baseball hot stove is winding down as most big time free agents have signed their new deals. Adrian Beltre and Rafael Soriano are probably…
Readings, Thoughts, and Deviations
It's been a bit too quiet around these part the past few days, but we've struggled to find a compelling narrative. Without an interesting thesis, or unique insight, this post will consist of interesting nuggets we've…
Stock Rising: Aaron Harang
In our Top 100 Free Agents post last month, we included a picture of Aaron Harang; the caption said he'd be outstanding or terrible. Breaking news out of the Friarhood (via MLBtraderumors ) sounds like Harang and his…
Top 100 MLB Free Agents
About a month ago, we listed the Top Free Agents by position . Our opinions haven't changed much in the past month, but here we are going to try and rank the whole group. Go grab a drink and settle in, here we go... No.…
World Series Preview
The only thing we know for sure is that Bengie Molina will be winning a World Series ring this year. Most of you probably know this by now, but it bears repeating because it's pretty cool. After everybody's…
2010 Ex-Cub Factor
There's reason for hope in Philadelphia. Although Roy Halladay lost game one of the NLCS, the infamous ex-Cub factor, which was orignially penned by Ron Berler in the Boston Herald on October 15, 1981, gives hope to the…
The Best Free Agents
W're working on a few things over here including: a revised Game Score formula that sort of feels more right, with IFFB data our look at 1973 awards Mark Prior Sandy Alderson's next move I'd think that at least two of…
In Brief: NL Playoff Preview
We're going a different route with this than we did with the AL Playoff Preview, which took parts one , two , and three . That took us three weeks to complete, this going to be quick. Readers, please take it for what…
Sizing Up the AL Playoffs, Part III
Anticlimactic (an-ti-cli- mac -tic) adj: of, relating to, or marked by an outcome that is strikingly less important than expected. Ouch. We have been hoping that dabbling with baseball statistics for the Yankees, Rays,…
Sizing Up the AL Playoffs, Part II
We're taking this one step at a time. In Part I of this series, we broke down the first steps towards constructing a recipe to see which teams will perform better in the relative crapshoot that is baseball's postseason.…
Player of the Fortnight vol. 2
The All-Star Break ended two weeks ago, last night, which means we may welcome back one of Baseball's most prestegious awards: the BAseball Reality Tour Player of the Fortnight Awards. The last time we handed out some…
2014 Future Star: Aaron Hicks
According to this report from Minneapolis , the Twins offered Seattle Wilson Ramos and Aaron Hicks for Cliff Lee. Twins prospect Wilson Ramos, a major league-ready catcher with Joe Mauer ahead of him, is the name most…
Player of the Fortnight Awards
A couple of weeks ago, in this post , we tried differentiating the ol' BAseball Reality Tour by awarding Midweek Players of the Week. On July 4th, in between exasperating moments of heat and isolation on Governors…
Recent Rumors & Reactions
July is the best month of the year for MLB trade rumors, and thus mlbtraderumors.com . To keep up with the pace, we will try to pull the highlights from recent posts... Miguel Tejada to the Phillies I actually like this…
Just Ramble On...
I've been working on a piece analyzing MLB players rumored to be available in trades. We know Cliff Lee is the top prize. Roy Oswalt will be good wherever he is, and then, of course, there's everyone else. I've been at…
Colonel Mustard Strikes Again!
We use our Preseason Predictions as the standard to review at the end of the year. Still, we like to take another look at what our crystal ball would forecast from different times during this season. Let's take the…
Monthly Pulse, August
Yesterday's trading deadline has solidified the rosters of most contenders. We can expect more movement than usual in August trades this season because more teams will be wary of claiming a player on waivers, due to…
Anticipating Tonight
Pittsburgh @ Atlanta Ross Ohlendorf vs Derek Lowe I had forgotten Ohlendorf was a former Yankee prospect. The only thing that really interests me about this series is if Nate McLouth is taking any former teammates or…
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